Improvement in cider-mills



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Patented Aug. 3,1875.

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JESSE BOWEN, or LANCASTER, onro.`

IMPROVEMENT IN CIDER-IIVIILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,25 l, dated August 3, 1875; application iiled i August 22, 1874.

To all whom it may concern: l. Be it known that I, JESSE BOWEN, of Lan-` caster, Fairtield county, Ohio, have invented cert-ain new and useful Improvements in Gider- Mills, of which the following is a specification My invention relatesfto a class of cider-mills known as hand-presses 5 and consists, in the rst part, of a rasping-cylinder, `so formed that it will readily clear it-selfofpomace. Myinvention consists, in the second part, in connec' tion with an annular groove in the false bottom of the press, of a perforated metallic conf ical sieve, whose object is to collect and discharge the juices formed in the center of the pomace. Y

, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation. through entire mill, having dotted lines to represent the position ofthe driving mechanism. Fig. 2 is a section through line or a', Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a plan ofthe mill with hopper removed. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ot' the crushing-cylinder, showing cutting-teeth and adjacent cavities.

A is the frame of a cider-mill intended to be operated by hand-power. B is the cross-head, in which is secured the nut on femaleV pressscrew. The bottom or trough of the pressframeis fitted at one end with a metallic strainer, a, resting over a cavity, a', and immediately in front of an escape-vent, c", the Whole device acting to collect and drain the juices from the press. Resting upon this true bottom of the press are false bottoms O C', composed of' slotted boards secured to battens c c', thus permitting an unobstructed ow of the juices from the press-cageswhich rest upon them to the vent a". As above mentioned, there are resting upon y these false bottoms press-cages D D', formed of staves cut or bent to a circle, inclosed within metallic hoops, and having partial saw-cuts d d' from the bottoms up, which drain the juices from the exterior of the cage. These staves, being jointed together at the upper ends, admit of being bound rmly together by hoops, as shown, and thus prevent the shacklin g incident to separated staves riveted or otherwise fastcned separate] y to the hoops. At the centers of the false bottoms, and resting in annular 'rings c" 0"', formed in the latter, are metallic perforated conesE E, which drain the juices from the central part of the cage through the slotted bottoms to the escape-vent. Secured ient release ofthe fastening, and the removal of the cage. The frame ofthe press is so arranged that one cage will be under the grinding machinery, while the other is under the press, thus rendering themachine continuous in its action. G is the hopper in which the fruit is placed, being funnel-Shaped and of wood at top, and formed of metal, with double conca ves below,in which revolve the feedrollers H H', by virtue of gearing, with decreased motion, as is desirable for this purpose, communicated from pinion. I on prime-motive shaft J, through wheel K, to the wheel h on iirst feed-roller shaft, which latter communiL cates it to the wheel h on second roller-shaft. The hopper G, below the feed-rollers H H', expands in concave around the raSping-cylinder Il to form the raspingchamber, and rests upon the frame A at a' c"', and has lugs gg' formed upon it. In close proximity to the line of descent of the hopper when being placed in position are secured cam-washers M M' upon bolts in the frame A, having-blanks cut from the edges nearest to their centers, which must face the descending hopper, in order to allow the lugs g g' to pass, which otherwise they would not do. The cams Inay then be swung around and over the lugs, and retained in position, so as to secure the hopper by checknuts N N gards distance apart, that it' one presents its longest radius between its center and the side of the hopper, the other must, perforce, present its shortest radius when acting upon the lugs g g' to retain the hopper; and it is obvious that, by reversing the cams, the position ot the hopper must change correspondingly,

thus increasing or decreasing the space l between the revolving rasping-cylinder L and movable rasping-chamber G, and the fruit ground will be correspondingly coarse or iinc. 'Ihe feed-rollers are formed with feeding-blades, which act in concert to take in a regular amount of fruit, which amount is decided part ly by the extent ot' opening leading thereto;

These cams are so situated, as reand this opening is regulated by means of the detachable slide O and plate P, which are both,

. or singly, removable, or used in position as required by the strength of the operator. It' the operator is desirous of working light, he retains both slide 0 and plate P in place. If he is desirous of increasing the amount of apples fed` he can remove plate P, so that apples may pass in from both sides of. the hopper. It he still desires to increase the feed ot' apples, he can remove the central slide O, so that the apples can pass in from both sides, and also from the center.

The fruit, after being thus admitted, is crushed in the chamber by the rasping-cylinder L, having rows of teeth l placed diagonally over the surface, as relating to its axis, with cavities l vformed in it at the front and 011e side of the rear cutting-edge of each tooth, which cavities serve to hold the pomace until the concave is passed, and afterward, by centrifugal action, to clear the teeth from pomace. The teeth of one row are placed directly in front ofthe spaces between the teeth of the succeeding row, and any two consecutive rows are diagonally opposed to each other across the axial line ot' the cylinder, as shown.

The cylinder receives accelerated motion from the multiplying gearing shown in dotted lines Q It S T, the wheel Q being keyed to the driving-shaft J, t-o which is secured a crank, U, for utilizing manual labor, and is kept in uniform vvelocity by y-wheel V. W is the press-cage follower, formed of a wooden disk to loosely lit `.the inner periphery of the presscage, while a metallic di sk, w, of suitable dialneter to fit accurately inside the cage, is secured to its under surface, so as to prevent the (lifticulty of either having a loose-tting follower-` head when simply a wooden one is used, or having the same an accurate fit when dry, and finding it to stick when damp and swelled.

I claim- 1. The crushing cylinder L, when formed with teeth l and cavities l, constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the annular grooves C G, the conical perforated metallic strainers E E', constructed and operating substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

JESSEa BOWEN.

Witnesses:

EDGAR J. GROSS,

R. M. HUNTER. 

